Many of the most promising new pharmaceuticals coming along in the drug development pathway are hydrophobic by nature—that is, they repel water, and are thus hard to dissolve in order to make them available to the body. ...
Biochemistry
Nov 28, 2023
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New research deconstructing the anatomy of a honeybee stinger could help pave the way for a future generation of miniaturized medical devices used for drug delivery in humans.
Biotechnology
Aug 17, 2023
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Plants engineered to produce therapeutic peptides could provide a cost-effective and sustainable platform for manufacturing drugs.
Cell & Microbiology
May 10, 2023
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Recent advances in pre-programmed architected materials could enable new functions that can evolve in response to their environments or external stimuli, according to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers.
Materials Science
Jun 23, 2022
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Two Rutgers University engineers specializing in the process of making drugs derived from living organisms have created an analytical tool they expect will accelerate the discovery and production of biologic drugs that are ...
Biochemistry
May 18, 2022
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Forensic scientists have for the first time shown that DNA can be recovered from the surface of capsules after just 15 seconds of contact by drug manufacturers and dealers—making it possible for law enforcement agencies ...
Biotechnology
Aug 9, 2021
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The qubit is the building block of quantum computing, analogous to the bit in classical computers. To perform error-free calculations, quantum computers of the future are likely to need at least millions of qubits. The latest ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 31, 2021
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Over the past few decades, there have been a handful of incidents in which manufacturing processes for making protein drugs became contaminated with viruses at manufacturing plants. These were all discovered before the drugs ...
Biotechnology
Apr 27, 2020
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have begun to use neural networks to identify the structural signatures of molecular gases, potentially providing new and more accurate sensing ...
Materials Science
Sep 13, 2018
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(Phys.org) —James Bond had his reasons for ordering his martinis "shaken, not stirred." Similarly, drug manufacturers need to make sure the molecules in a new drug are arranged in an exact manner, lest there be dire consequences. ...
Materials Science
Aug 15, 2013
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